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I'm 34, married with two kids and want to write for a living. I would also love to fly fish for a living, but that's even harder to put together than a writing career...
I love to laugh and make others laugh...a day without laughing isn't even a day, in my book. You can tolerate anything that you can laugh at, which is good in an age of intolerance (and the intolerable).
Right now I'm employed as a teacher in an Alternative High School program. Those would be all the kids that didn't make it, for whatever reason, in the regular high school. It's important work and has its moments, but it's not what I want to spend my life doing.
I'm excited to be here. I love to write and read the writings of others. I love words. Thanks to all who read my posts--please let me know what you think, good or bad!
- Location:
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United States
- Primary occupation:
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Teacher
- Dream occupation:
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Fly fishing writer
- Hometown:
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Mexico, MO
- I like:
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being alive. Writing, fishing, being a dad and husband. Being outside. Nice people. Greasy spoon food. Beer and cigars.
- Favorite writers:
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Janet Fitch, Alice Sebold, Jean Heglund, Hemingway, Steinbeck, John Gierach, James Thurber, Max Steele, Gail Godwin, Edwidge Danticat, Rick Bass, Jack Finney, Ray Bradbury, Jim Harrison, Jerry Dennis
- Favorite books:
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Cannery Row, Travels With Charlie, The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, The Cider House Rules, Into the Forest, White Oleander, The Lovely Bones
- Favorite newspapers:
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don't generally read them...too political and depressing (are those two words synonymous yet?)
- Favorite magazines:
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Fly Rod & Reel, National Geographic, The New Yorker
- Favorite music:
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Simon & Garfunkel, Willie Nelson, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue", The Charlie Brown Music, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Johnny Cash, Tom T. Hall
- Favorite movies:
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Pulp Fiction, Picnic, Bus Stop, Rear Window & most Hitchcock, About Schmidt, Coen Bros., Lord of the Rings
- Favorite TV shows:
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All in the Family, Northern Exposure, Quantum Leap
- Favorite teams:
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Please.
- Favorite quote:
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"I fish not because I feel that fishing is so very important, but because I suspect that all the other pursuits of man are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun."--John D. Voelker
- Gender:
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male (had no choice)
- Religion:
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Fly Fishing